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Tiago Paiva
Tiago Paiva is the founder and CEO of Talkdesk, the AI-powered cloud contact center platform he built from a 10-day hackathon project in 2011 into a $10 billion enterprise unicorn. Born in Portugal and trained as an engineer at Instituto Superior Técnico, he packed his bags for San Francisco two weeks after winning a Twilio hackathon and never looked back. Under his leadership, Talkdesk has grown to over 2,000 employees in 16 countries, posting $420M in ARR, and pioneering agentic AI across the entire contact center stack.
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